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Hey guys! I was wondering how you guys go about what to get for pain medicine for when shtf and you jeed something for pain for such as a gunshot wound, or something similar. What do you buy and how are u able to get it? Do you tell your Dr you're a prepper and you're stocking up?
 
I would have to buy them on the street. I don't have any in my preps (I'm pretty much just getting started on the supplies side of things) but honestly I would take antibiotics over pain meds, given the choice. Or I should say, antibiotics first, pain meds second.
 
You might want to look into wild lettuce (Lactuca virosa). The greens can be eaten raw (best mixed with other greens due to some bitterness), and the sap can be turned into pain meds. Careful! You don't want to overdose!

You can buy seeds here:
https://www.amazon.com/Lettuce-Lactuca-Virosa-Organic-seeds/dp/B01IOPEK1M

From Wikipedia:

Lactuca virosa was used in the 19th century by physicians when opium could not be obtained. It was studied extensively by the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 1911. They discovered two chemicals responsible for the properties of L. virosa; lactucopicrin and lactucin. In the United States, the plant experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 1970s. Today the plant is un-scheduled by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), meaning it is legal to grow, purchase, and own without prescription or licence.​
 
You can also buy psychotropic drugs (including opiates) on the Internet...they usually ship from pharmacies in other countries.

Be careful when getting opiates from the street and/or other grey markets.

Opiate overdoses are at an all time high (no pun intended) because many opiates (including pill forms) are cut with Fentanyl.

Fentanyl is a synthetic narcotic that is very, very, very strong, and also quite addictive.

Narcotics may be necessary post SHTF, but remember that a drug addiction under such circumstances may do you more harm than any benefit that may come from a stockpile of these substances.

Personally (and this will rub people the wrong way), I would just grow reefer and extract the hashish.

Hashish resin can actually be used as a local anesthetic if it's rubbed into a wound prior to sutures, and the plant's other medicinal properties are too numerous to go into here.

Also, it's a renewable crop that won't run out like your stockpile of narcotics.

By the way, opium poppies can be grown in the U.S.A., which allows you to mix up opium and liqour to make laudnum.

Just be careful and circumspect.

You don't want fifty million dirtbag drug addicts showing up at your door post SHTF.

P.S. Some places in the U.S. carry a form of non-perscrption Narcan (an antidote for opiate overdose) in the pharmacy. If you plan to stockpile opiates, then also stockpile lots of Narcan (naloxone hydrochloride) and become familiar with its use.
 
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I just had the third of three crown done at the dentists office, and I’m here to tell you that pain meds are something to consider. I couldn’t imagine going thru a tooth extraction without novicane. I don’t care so much for the opioids, but xylocain for minor surgery and procedures would be a really good thing. I agree with the pot growing after shtf as well. Even though pot wouldn’t alleviate all the pain, it would help and relaxes the person too. I guess my biggest pro for it is it can be grown easily and be an easily renewed resourc. I think that the opioids would be too much of a risk to have on hand, both pre and post shtf. The draw from addicts would be like putting a bullseye on your self.... I wonder about ether for general anesthesia. Might be worth researching if it could be made online now for post shtf use.
 
I just had the third of three crown done at the dentists office, and I’m here to tell you that pain meds are something to consider. I could only imagine what it would be like to have a tooth extraction without Novocain. I don’t care much for opiates, now or post shtf. I just feel they cause too much trouble, now with police and post shtf with addicts willing to go to great lengths to get them from you. Xylocain for minor surgeries and procedures would really be worthwhile, but probably impractical to store long term. Either could be produced with a still from a moonshiner and some bleach as a general anesthesia, but would take some trial and error on the mixture without the internets help. I think pot would be an easy to produce all around help, both physical and mental relief with no side effects and easily reproduced. Aspirin is something I have stockpiled. Great stuff both for pain and reducing temperatures.
 
Ether and chloroform are easily made with bleach, alcohol, and acetone (and no, we don't just mix them together).

Both are dangerous, as they are highly inflamable. Using the stuff even moderately can lead to bad liver (and brain) damage.

There are instructions on how to use it properly in the Special Forces Medical Handbook, which can be gotten from Paladin Press.
 
Ether and chloroform are easily made with bleach, alcohol, and acetone (and no, we don't just mix them together).

Both are dangerous, as they are highly inflamable. Using the stuff even moderately can lead to bad liver (and brain) damage.

There are instructions on how to use it properly in the Special Forces Medical Handbook, which can be gotten from Paladin Press.
Luckily, neither should be needed very often. I should look into the SF handbook as having this kind of info, not just making something but knowing how to use it too, may come in handy one day. I haven’t added anything to my preps library for a bit now.
 
Since this question came up, I asked an older lady I know (she is 70, even for me that's older lol) who has been making and selling traditional meds and essential oils all her life, that's her whole business. She said the easiest and most effective are, some poppies, and hash. She actually has a journal where she weighed out amounts and "experimented" with pain management, I am hoping to see them this year.

Poppies, you need to know the correct ones to grow (she didn't say, I will ask) and then you process as normal, cut slits in the mature bulb, then scrape the resin off so you don't kill the plant. You can do this a few times, according to her. Then, just roll the resin into a small ball and eat, or mix into a tea. She says, and here is where I would like to see the journal, that the danger of overdose this way is extremely low. The largest ball of resin she tried was the size of a pencil eraser. That's pretty non-specific, but if I can get notes from her journal I will. She said this was by far the most effective Non Rx pain relief available, and as long as it is not abused the chances of addiction are low. Guess that's true of a lot of things, though.

She hadn't actually ever processed hash, so even though she told me how it was done, and I have heard and read about the process before, I won't go into it. My understanding is you have to have aa lot of plants to get a small amount, and it is a long and labor intensive process.
 
On a side note, she said she would "give me a care package" since I asked. So I am a little curious about what I might get next time I see her, lol. Hopefully, it would be her journal.
 

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